and even anxious, to be placed in [ceeding from our own soil) has the House of Commons; but that, spread REAL prosperity over the on no account, will I expend, Orkney Isles; and I saw one man for the accomplishment of that last week, who had sold plat in purpose, any portion of those earnings, which, whether great or

small, all belong to my wife and children.

London, (brought from Suffolk) to the amount of 1501..

Why, here are grounds for the lasting gratitude of the country. Yet, what are these, great as they are, compared with my labours with regard to the monstrous, the dreadful Paper Money system?

While, the other day, in the city of Bath, the people, amidst the crash of Banks, were shouting in the streets, "COBBETT IS RIGHT! COBBETT IS A How long, how earnestly, with TRUE PROPHET!" Just at what perseverance, with what this same time, the WEST OF patience, with what fortitude, with ENGLAND AGRICULTURAL what disinterestedness, with what SOCIETY, the MARQUIS OF LANSDOWN in the chair, were in the same city, awarding MEDALS, to the makers of STRAW BONNETS from my instructions; and were also receiving experimental proofs of the excellence of the LOCUST WOOD, of the trees

of which the Marquis informed the SOCIETY that He was making plantations, and that the Govern

devotedness, and amidst what diffi

culties, what losses, what repeated ruin, what obloquy, what malicious calumnies, good God! have I laboured against this nefarious system; by which I might have profited more, perhaps, than any other man in existence, but which, knowing it to be destructive to my country, I have constantly held in abhorrence!

The world has never beheld

ment also was making plantations in the New Forest. As to the a triumph more complete and former, the manufacture (all pro- more honourable than that which

time and events have now award- not hypocrite enough to affect not ed to me. The triumph of MOR- to see them; nor am I mean DECAI over HAMMON was not enough to assume the mock greater than is mine over this humility of pretending, that they fraudulent and pauper-creating are greater than I merit at the system. It is like the triumph of hands of my country. the Sun over the Frogs: all eyes behold it: it would be proclaimed by every tongue; but, every man knows that every other man must know it as well as he. Still I

Those who NOW want any argument to convince them of my ability to render my country the greatest of all possible services, would not be convinced " though one were to rise from the dead;" and, as to those who affect to be

am anxious to make my country triumph too; but, at the same time, it becomes not me to dis-lieve (for not one of them really guise, that I should be proud of believes it), that I should make use the honours that would be con-of my power for what they call ferred upon me; that I am by "revolutionary purposes," the no means blind to the certain best answer to their corrupt and advantages, which a seat in the and perverse insinuations is, that House of Commons would give it is, because to preserve my fame me, and give, moreover, to those, it must be, my anxious wish to put who are, and who, on every ac- a stop to the fatal progress of that count, ought to be, as dear to hideous revolution, which is now actually begun. I am well aware that it is no easy task to effect an object like this. This object has not, for so many years, occupied my thoughts, without my duly measuring its magnitude, and also

me as is my own life, and, indeed, to whose affectionate and

dutiful conduct, not to omit adding, to whose talents also, I am, in no small degree, indebted for

this triumph. I am by no means

blind to those advantages; I am the means of its accomplishment,

For the last seven years o small! TWO BILLS, if I become a part of every twenty-four hours, member of the House of Com

whether on sea or on land, on my mons, shall be moved for by me, pillow, in my garden, on my horse, and, if brought in, shall be brought or on my feet, has been spent in in in the words, and in the ink thinking of the means necessary, and on paper in which and when the danger should become on which they were written in clear to all eyes, to the rescuing of Long Island. I am thoroughly England from the natural and in-satisfied, that if these Bills were evitable consequences of this all-passed, we should soon see Engcorrupting, all-enfeebling, all-land once more what she ought to degrading curse of paper money. State these means here, or any part of them, I shall not. I always knew that the day would

come, when they would be wanted.

When in Long Island I drew up

TWO BILLS, which it was my intention to propose, if I should

become a member of parliament.

I have read these two Bills fifty

times over, at least; and, at the

end of about six years, I have found hardly any thing to alter.

The course and the result of events

has been, thus far, and now mani

festly will be, so precisely that

which I anticipated, that I was,

six years ago, as well prepared

be; and that, at any rate, we should see property once more secure. At present it has no security at all. No man, however careful, and of how solid a nature soever his means, knows what he will be worth this day month. One convulsion ends only to make way for another; one class of the community is crushed this three months; another next three months; a general and terrible convulsion is always threatening us; and, if a war should come in the midst of this, where is the man who will attempt to describe the consequences?

The measures, that I should

for them as I am now. These propose, would subvert nothing

that is acknowledged by the laws | power of doing that which I think and constitution of England; they would be a great public service, would tend not to pull down, but be placed in my hands, God will, to uphold, the government of I trust, give me health to do it; if King, Lords and Commons; they that power be not placed in my would take away no lawful privi- hands, I shall, as SIR THOMAS lege or immunity; they would BEEVOR observes with regard to tend to destroy no lawful esta-himself, have the consolation of blishment; they would do injus-reflecting, that I have to answer tice to no human being; and they would restore a fixedness as to property, and would also restore that harmony and good will between the rich and the poor, which has so long been banished from

the land, and the want of which

seems now to be preparing the

worst ingredients of a violent ter

mination of the series of convul

sions that is now going on, which

for no share of whatever calamities may afflict this now harassed and half-convulsed country. I must grieve, and I should grieve, at those calamities; but while my grief would be as unavailing as that of the most imbecile of the sufferers, I should still be cheered by the thought, that all men would declare that no part of them were chargeable to me.

When the meeting in London takes place, which will be after the 25th of January, the place and manner of receiving subscriptions will be stated; but I think it right

must, before long, come to a close, and which, if it bring itself to an end, must, to my sincere conviction, produce scenes of desolation and horror far surpassing any which England has ever wit-to observe here, that some mode of nessed, or of which Englishmen subscribing without the publishing have ever read.

Such, as to this matter, are my wishes and such my views. If the

of names (where the parties may choose it), ought to be settled on; for such are the ramifications of

the dreadful system, that, com- between this and the 10th of Ja paratively, very few men who have|nuary, or, after SIR THOMAS have any thing to lose, DARE do even appointed the day of meeting, the most meritorious act, if its may, if he please, leave a letter tendency be to put an end to the at No. 183, Fleet-street, whence. frauds of Paper Money. Such a it will be despatched, according to mode, which will, at the same time, the Address; or he may send by give the subscriber an assurance twopenny post (postage paid), to of his money having been duly re- the same place, addressing his ceived and properly applied, may letter for SIR THOMAS BEEVOR, easily be pointed out. If a good to the care of Mr. JOHN DEAN, sum of money be raised, the ob- No. 183, Fleet-street. ject will be accomplished; but, in the present state of things, there is no other reliance. That such sub- them to act with effect. As a scriptions are lawful we well party our triumph is as comknow: MAINWARING was carried plete as even our wishes could

In conclusion, let me say to my old friends, NOW is the time for

Events bid the whole of the community to declare us, and us only, to have been right. A greater, a more undisputed, a

in for Middlesex, and WILBER- have it. FORCE for Yorkshire, by public subscriptions; in which (the former in particular) the Ministers and the Law Officers of the Crown more honourable victory never openly participated; and there was achieved. But, if we stop has, as yet, at any rate, been no here, we triumph amidst our law passed to exclude me and my friends from the enjoyment of this species of liberty.

country's ruin: we triumph while that country is plunged into misery and disgrace. And what a

Any gentleman, in town, who country, too! A country with has a wish to make any communi- ten times the resources of any cation to SIR THOMAS BEEVOR, other of equal extent, and inhabit